Academic Work Experience
2022 – 2023 – Research Fellow, The Käte Hamburger Research Centre “Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation” (global dis:connect), LMU Munich
2020 – 2021 – Research Fellow, 4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
2012 – 2013 – Research Assistant, Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul
Teaching Experience
2023 – 2024 – Contemporary Art from Turkey: An Alternative History and Social Analysis, University of Zurich, Institute of Art History
2020 – 2022 – Art and Anthropology, Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty I – Humanities, Art History Department
2019 WiSe – Istanbul Biennial Excursion (co-taught with Prof. Bärbel Küster), University of Zurich, Institute of Art History
2016 WiSe – Postcolonial Art History (co-taught with Prof. Bärbel Küster), Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty I – Humanities
2013 – 2015 – History of Civilization I–II, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul
2012 WiSe – Visual Culture, Poznan School of Social Sciences (Erasmus Academic Teaching Exchange Program)
2012 – 2013 – Philosophy of Art I–II, Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Fine Arts
2012 – 2013 – Contemporary Art Theory, Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Fine Arts
Publications
Books
Transitional Territories: Confluence of Art and Anthropology in the Practices of Artists from Turkey, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, March 2022
Articles
2024 – Exhibition Catalogue: Semiha Berksoy, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, “Reclaiming Personal Myths: Semiha Berksoy at the Crossroads of Artistic Expression and the Formation of Modern Türkiye”, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, ISBN: 9788836660360
2023 – Static bulletin: thoughts and research from global dis:connect, “the question is whether there are even two modes of working?”, a conversation with Ayşe Güngör and Enis Maci, interviewed by Nikolai Brandes and Anna Sophia Nübling
2022 – Static bulletin: thoughts and research from global dis:connect, “Mapping the wounds of the world: dis:connectivities of global representation at the 12th Berlin Biennale”, Vol. 1, No. 2, November, ISSN: 2751-1626
2020 – Exhibition Catalogue: Shifting Patterns, “Moving Memories, Memories of Materials”, Artbear Books, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, ISBN: 978-3-946957-07-2
2019 – Estudoprévio, “Collaboration and Visibility: An Anthropological Analysis of Socially Engaged Art Practice in Turkey”, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, ISSN: 2182-4339
2016 – Mürekkep Balığı, “On Asemic Writing” (in Turkish), Istanbul
2015 – Istanbul Art News, “Unexpected Musical Potentials of the Cities: Interview with Nevin Aladağ” (in Turkish), Istanbul
2014 – Interactions: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Research, “Gezi Park Barricades: Production of Social Space”, Colegio de San Lorenzo, ISSN: 2423-1614
2014 – Culthist’14 Proceedings, “Cross-Cultural Aesthetics and Ethnographic Turn in Arts”, Mimar Sinan University Publishing, Istanbul
2013 – Kitap-lık – Literature Journal, “Walking as a Literary Activity” (in Turkish), Yapi Kredi Publishing, Istanbul, ISSN: 1300058602
2013 – Culthist’13 Proceedings, “On Covered Meaning: Traditional Calligraphy and Asemic Writing”, Mimar Sinan University Publishing, Istanbul
2013 – E-skop (Art History E-Journal), “Impacts of Anthropology on Art” (in Turkish)
Editorial Work
2013 – HISTART’13 Conference Proceedings, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Press, Istanbul
2013 – PHILHIST’13 Conference Proceedings, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Press, Istanbul
2014 – CUI’14 Conference Proceedings, DAKAM, Istanbul
Translations
2009 – André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, 6 45 Publishing, Istanbul
2012 – Georges Bataille, Absence of Myth, E-Skop Journal, Istanbul
Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures
2025 – “Negotiating Identity and Recognition: The Complexities of Representing Artists from Turkey in Germany”, Workshop at KHK global dis:connect, LMU Munich
2023 – “Istanbul on Display: Dis:connections in the Globalization of Contemporary Art from Turkey”, Workshop organization and presentation, KHK global dis:connect, LMU Munich
2022 – “Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation: Theories, Methodologies, Explorations”, Annual Conference, KHK global dis:connect, LMU Munich – Moderator
2020 – “Narratives in the Anthropocene Art: Interplay Between Artists and Environmental Issues in Turkey”, Colloquium of Prof. Dr. Sylvia Claus, BTU Cottbus – Invited Lecture
2020 – “Roots in Resistance: Vegetal Life in Contemporary Eco-Art Practices from Turkey”, 4A_Lab Seminar, Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz – Max Planck Institute – Lecture
2018 – “Collaboration and Visibility: An Anthropological Analysis of Community-Based Art Practice in Turkey”, Art, Materiality and Representation Conference, British Museum / SOAS / RAI, London
2018 – “Confluence of Art and Anthropology”, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens – Invited Lecture (w. Assoc. Prof. Levent Soysal)
2017 – “Rethinking the Relation Between Contemporary Art and Anthropology”, Foundation of Anthropology, Istanbul – Invited Lecture (w. Assoc. Prof. Levent Soysal)
2016 – “Ethnographic Turn in Arts”, Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Art and Design, Istanbul – Invited Lecture
2015 – Research Network Critical Transcultural Perspectives, Constitutive Session, Freie Universität Berlin – Presentation
2014 – “Cross-cultural Aesthetics and the Ethnographic Turn in Contemporary Art”, Cultural History Conference, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul
2014 – International Advisory Board Meeting, Interactions Journal, Colegio de San Lorenzo – Invited Lecture
2013 – “On Distorted Meaning: Traditional Calligraphy and Asemic Writing”, Cultural History Conference, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul